Inglourious Basterds
2009
***
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph waltz, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Denis Ménochet, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Martin Wuttke
Christoph Waltz stars as a brilliant, charming, and fiendish SS colonel who's in charge of tracking down the remaining Jews in France. Brad Pitt, on the other hand, plays the leader of an American Jewish Nazi-scalping squad. The paths of these two men eventually cross in a Paris cinema towards the end of the war. Waltz was showered with acting accolades, including an Oscar, for his mesmerising multilingual performance, whereas Pitt with his stiff jaw and Tennessee twang would be home in a second rate comedy. Sadly this same inconsistency runs through Tarantino's WW2 revenge fantasy, which contains some terrific and some endless and pointless scenes in its excessive 2½-hour runtime.
